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               The opinion in support of the decision being entered                   
               today was not written for publication in a law journal                 
               and is not binding precedent of the Board.                             
                                                               Paper No. 25           
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                                                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                                                                     
                 Ex parte LEE EVAN NAKAMURA and STEWART EUGENE TATE                   
                                                                                     
                                Appeal No. 2004-2245                                  
                             Application No. 10/145,544                               
                                                                                     
                               HEARD:  March 10, 2005                                 
                                                                                     
          Before KRASS, BARRY and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.               
          KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 52-60 and 76-81.                                                     
               The invention is directed to the retrieval of data from an             
          in-memory database table stored in a computer.  In particular,              
          stored descriptors, which reference an in-memory database table,            
          are stored in a high-speed index.  The stored descriptors are               
          mapped to location information in a header area of the in-memory            
          database table, and the location information is then used to                
          access data stored in a data area of the in-memory database table.          
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